I Do Think The Attempt To Raise

Believing, With Max Weber, That Man Is An Animal Suspended In Webs Of Significance He Himself Has Spun, I Take Culture To Be Those Webs, And The Analysis Of It To Be Therefore Not An Experimental Science In Search Of Law But An Interpretive One In Search Of Meaning.

My Instincts Are Always Against People Who Want To Fasten Some Sort Of Hegemony Onto Things

I Never Leave A Sentence Or A Paragraph Until I'm Satisfied With It

What We Call Our Data Are Really Our Own Constructions Of Other People’s Constructions Of What They And Their Compatriots Are Up To.

If There's Ever A Place Where You Can't Argue That You Can Put The Facts Over Here And The Text Over There And See If They Fit, It Is Surely In Anthropology